By Huma Durrani. When a client stays in their head—focusing on facts, lists, and tidy narratives—artmaking can feel overwhelming. Reading Lisa D. Hinz’s recent case study reminded me why I
We’ve all done it: picking up our phones to quickly check the news or social media, only to find ourselves still scrolling an hour later, flooded with stories about crisis,
When Words Aren’t Enough The mind and body still find ways to speak. For many clients dealing with trauma, combining Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with creative arts therapies
If you’ve ever had a song give you goosebumps, lift your mood, or take you back to a specific memory, you already know that music is powerful. But in music
By Huma Durrani. When I was approached by Sasha (pseudonym) to work with her sons using the Sensory-Based Relational Art Therapy Approach (Durrani, 2020), I was completely thrown out of my
How Trauma is Stored in the Brain and Body When we go through something traumatic, the brain’s alarm system (the amygdala) takes over. It stores the experience as sensory fragments—images,